[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 224 (Monday, November 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67964-67965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25780]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 030-33821]


Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for License Amendment for Belair Quartz, Inc.'s 
Facility in Christiansted, St. Croix

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Orysia Masnyk Bailey, Materials 
Security & Industrial Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, 
Region I, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 19406, 
telephone (404) 562-4739, fax (404) 562-4955; or by e-mail: 
[email protected].

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is terminating Materials 
License No. 55-23732-02 issued to Belair Quartz, Inc. and authorizing 
release of its facility in Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin 
Islands for unrestricted use. NRC has prepared an Environmental 
Assessment (EA) in support of this action in accordance with the 
requirements of 10 CFR part 51. Based on the EA, the NRC has concluded 
that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is appropriate. The 
license will be terminated following the publication of this notice.

II. EA Summary

    The purpose of the action is to terminate the license and authorize 
the release of the licensee's Christiansted, St. Croix facility for 
unrestricted use. Belair Quartz, Inc. (Belair Quartz) was authorized by 
the NRC from April 27, 1995, to use watch dials and hands containing 
luminous paint activated with tritium for the manufacture and repair of 
timepieces. On October 31, 2001, Belair Quartz requested that the NRC 
release the facility for unrestricted use. Belair Quartz has conducted 
surveys of the facility and provided information to the NRC to 
demonstrate that the site meets the license termination criteria in 
Subpart E of 10 CFR part 20 for unrestricted release.
    The NRC staff has prepared an EA in support of the license 
amendment. The facility was remediated and surveyed prior to the 
licensee requesting the license termination. The NRC staff has reviewed 
the information and final status survey submitted by Belair Quartz and 
performed a confirmatory survey. Based on its review, the staff has 
determined that there are no additional remediation activities 
necessary to complete the proposed action. Therefore, the staff 
considered the impact of the residual radioactivity at the facility and 
concluded that since the residual radioactivity meets the requirements 
in Subpart E of 10 CFR part 20, a Finding of No Significant Impact is 
appropriate.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    The staff has prepared the EA (summarized above) in support of the 
license amendment to terminate the license and release the facility for 
unrestricted use. The NRC staff has evaluated Belair Quartz, Inc.''s 
request and the results of the surveys and has concluded that the 
completed action complies with the criteria in Subpart E of 10 CFR part 
20. The staff has found that the environmental impacts from the action 
are bounded by the impacts evaluated by NUREG-1496, Volumes 1-3, 
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement in Support of Rulemaking on 
Radiological Criteria for License Termination of NRC-Licensed 
Facilities' (ML042310492, ML042320379, and ML042330385). On the basis 
of the EA, the NRC has concluded that the environmental impacts from 
the action are expected to be insignificant and has determined not to 
prepare an environmental impact statement for the action.

IV. Further Information

    Documents related to this action, including the application for the 
license termination and supporting documentation, are available 
electronically in the NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management 
System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC's public 
documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents related to 
this Notice are: The Environmental Assessment (ML042720034), and the 
Letter dated October 31, 2001, transmitting the Final Status Survey 
Report (ML013120531). On October 25, 2004, the NRC terminated public 
access to ADAMS and initiated an additional security review of publicly 
available documents to ensure that potentially sensitive information is 
removed from the ADAMS database accessible through the NRC's web site. 
Interested members of the public may obtain copies of the referenced 
documents for review and/or copying by contacting the Public Document 
Room pending resumption of public access to ADAMS. The NRC Public 
Documents Room is located at NRC Headquarters in Rockville, MD, and can 
be contacted at (800) 397-4209, (301) 415-4737 or by e-mail at 
[email protected].
    These documents may be viewed electronically at the NRC Public 
Document Room (PDR), O 1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 
Pike, Rockville, MD, 20852. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy 
documents for a fee. The PDR is open from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., 
Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays.

    Dated in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 15th day of 
November, 2004.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John D. Kinneman,
Chief, Materials Security & Industrial Branch, Division of Nuclear 
Materials Safety Region I.
[FR Doc. 04-25780 Filed 11-19-04; 8:45 am]
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